The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-18
The other side of Dress Reform.


Sooner or later the world viii De com
PEELED 20 admit that there are two sides to
even the question of w0uan's dress re
form The Art Age records the fact that
at "a late dress reform meeting in London,
at which Mrs. Oscar Wilde presided vari-
oIs forms Of Oriental dress with western
embellishments We're gravely recon
mended for ne fashionable European and
American women.
Perhaps it were not wholly unwise for
the refOrmers who would abandon all
artificial supports and restraints for the
female figure 10 keep in mind for Occa-
siouaI reference the fact that even the
much yaunted Greek beauties when they
became pOnderOus wore q primitive corset
Of flexible wood and withes. The nymphs
and gOddesses to whom women are ad-
vised 10 look and learn what the natural
figure is, are alI-save. perhaps, our i'm
mortal Lady Of lIilO-uuder p years Of
age. After that age, Il divine youth had
ever extended beyond. even a Greek god
dess must have enlarged her contours.
Certainly Attic mothers did, for embOn-
point is the fate OF southern women, how
ever classic their features. The dress re
formers might also read the testimony of
Lady Hester StanhCye's physician after
years Of residence among the hours Of
Syria. People imagine, 80 he wrote that
the Oriental woman is a wreck at 30. On
the contrary she Is in quite as good con
ditiOn as the woman Of her own age in
Europe. The cause Of her older appear
anCe is her manner of dress, which does
not conceal the ravaGcs of time on the fig
ure. ] knew a lady Of Damascus, mother
Of seven children, whom I long looked
IS7on as mere mass Of ,hapeless flesh.
Afterward I met her i'm London, trans
formed by European :Sc-s into figure
which was the envy Of ane sex, the admi-
ration of the other Detroit Free Press.
Russian Peasants Migrating to Siberia.
The tide Of emigration of the Russian
pe8santry INTO Siberia IS largely on the in
crease. There is no official registration of
the numbers; but in 1856 there passed
through SvZrani alone 100. coming from
the central provinces. Others in large
numbers proceed by sea TO the AmOOr in
the far east. The disturbance of pOpula-
ton is not limited to q movement beyond
the European frontiers. but prevails &C
lively within it
One hundred thousand coIonsts have
lately migrated to the banks Of the Kie
ban, and the Rural bank is assisting many
other thousands to establish themselves
in New Russia. With the exception of
the last there is little or no organization
in any of these movements; the people
simply seem impelled by Impotence of
their present lot and a blind desire of
change, and they 60 forth not knowing
whittier they go. Many of them return
to their original settlements after a longer
or shorter absence, more destitute than
they went forth, but far the larger num-
Der are never heard Of more. They are
lost in the vastress of the solitudes into
which they plunge.
There is no government organization
whatever in many of the places they go
to; no information is available before they
start as to the best routes, the capabilities
of soil or the conditions Of climate and
season. II they succeed it is only after
enduring unheard Of hardsnips, which
might have been spared them if there ex-
issed q department charged with the reg
ulation Of this great national migration.
circumstances Of failure are, il is 10 be
feared, the rule, and when the disaster
happens beyond the reach of railways and
steamers the world, even Of Russia, never
hears of them. The state Itself Is begin
ming to suffer directly in its finances from
this disorganized shifting of population,
as many of the emigrants leave arrears OF
taxes behind them.-London Times.